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in outline, mostly near the base, 3-4 in. across with 3-5 broad, 

 wedge-shaped divisions with short, pointed lobes ; petioles long 

 and slender. Flowers paniculate on slender pedicels, about % in. 

 in diameter, bluish-purple ; upper petals white, veined with blue, 

 the lower with a yellowish, hairy spot at the base of the blade. 

 The seed pods pubescent, spreading but little, with the walls so 

 thin that the seeds can be seen through. Near the forks of Bubbs 

 Creek, growing in a wet place where the brush was dense. 



Delphinium pratense Eastwood. Meadow Larkspur. 

 Root tuberous, near the surface of the ground. Stems slender, 

 simple or branched from the base, about a foot high, villous with 

 soft, white, deflexed-spreading hairs, densest near the base. 

 Lower leaves more than an inch broad, having 3-4 wedge-shaped 

 divisions each with linear-oblong, mucronate lobes ; petioles 

 about 2 in. long ; stem leaves with simple, linear divisions or 

 merely lobed and really bracts. Flowers at first scattered on 

 long pedicels, later forming a loosely or closely flowered simple 

 or compound raceme. Flowers purple and white, }i in. across, 

 with the spur very slender and often 2-toothed at tip. Lower 

 sepals almost equaling the spur, obovate, acute, the upper 

 broader and with a conspicuous spot near the apex. Lower 

 petals bifid and shortly fringed, white, with a purple blotch near 

 the base of the blade ; upper petals 2-lobed at apex, white, with 

 the margin wavy. Pods pubescent, slightly spreading. This 

 grows in the high meadows ; collected at Horse Corral Meadows. 

 It is desirable to collect good flowering and fruiting specimens of 

 these larkspurs so as to see the variation in difi"erent places. 



Actaea spicata arguta Torr. Leaves large, 1-2 with broad 

 triangular outline, 3-5 times compound ; the leaflets ovate, irreg- 

 ularly and unequally cut. Berries as large as peas, red when ripe. 

 East Lake, in flower. 



Anemone occidentalis Watson is to be looked for beneath 

 melting snow-banks. It has large white or violet flowers nearly 

 2 in. in diameter, succeeded by dense, globose heads of akenes 

 tipped with long, feathery styles. 



Aconitum Columbianum Nutt, Monkshood, is also to be 

 looked for in the meadows and other wet places. It has dark 

 purple or blue flowers, with the upper sepal forming a hood within 

 which are the only petals. Fruits similar to those of larkspurs. 



